The development of lesson plan of the water pressure booster pump STEM education

Abstract

The paper will clarify STEM education learning activity of designing the simple the water pressure booster pump. The STEM education learning activity will be developed based on Sutaphan and Yuenyong [12] the context-based STEM education learning approach. The activity will start from identification of social issue of the drought often occurs during the dry season in various regions in Indonesia. The possible solution as the designing simple water pump will be introduced to the students to enhance them to develop the prototypes. Then, the lesson plan will provide activities regarding on the 7 stages of Sutaphan and Yuenyong [12] the context-based STEM education in order to scaffold students to practice knowledge for designing some technology prototypes or products through engineer design process. For making the simple water pressure booster pump, the lesson plan will provide students chance to practice integration of knowledge. That knowledge includes physics (e.g. basic measurement skills, object motion, dynamic fluid, gravitational force, energy, etc.), math (e.g. measurement, unit conversion), art (e.g. an impressive form of water pressure booster pump), and economy (e.g. save money and be able to use natural resources). This paper may have implications for designing STEM education learning activities.